Viewers love him for the role of Dr. Lubicz from “Klan” and Count Leszek Czyński, who fell in love with Maria Wilczur in “The Quack”. Tomasz Stockinger, because we are talking about him, is an actor who comes from an artistic family. The actor’s mother, Barbara Barska, was a singer, and his father, Andrzej, was an actor, just like his son, although he did not plan it in his youth.
Tomasz Stockinger’s father was also an actor. He experienced more as a child than many adults
The father of the TV series Doctor Lubicz made his debut in the show “Romance from Vaudeville”, but he sang as well as his wife, which took him to the Polish Song Festival in Opole and the Soldier’s Song Festival in Kołobrzeg. “In the theater I am positioned in such a way that I play almost only villains, but in songs I can show my own attitude to love, to warm, human matters. It is often an antidote to those theater roles” – said Andrzej Stockinger to Aleksander Jerzy Rowiński in the program on Polish Radio from 1975.
Stockinger met his future wife when Barbara Barska, her sister Adrianna and Zofia formed a musical trio. They were the ones who launched the hit “You Are My Love”. At the same time, the actor toured with the Czwórka Szacha band – it was thanks to music that they met. “One day, somewhere on a concert tour in the middle of Poland, one of the Triola Sisters accidentally met one of the Shah’s Four, and then they lived happily ever after,” Stockinger recalled in an interview for “Tele Tygodnia” quoted by zloteprzeboje.pl.
As we read on the website, the artist followed the principle “the way to the heart is through the stomach” and brought home-made bryndza cheese to his first date with Barska. “As you know, on the route you had to fend for yourself and sometimes even cook something. It all started with this sheep cheese,” said the couple’s son, Tomasz, years later.
Andrzej Stockinger spent over half a century with Barbara Barska and died at his beloved’s side on August 13, 1993. Without much regret, the actor’s wife sacrificed her career for the family and focused on providing her husband and two children – Tomasz and Katarzyna – with the best possible home. Although she did not have time for solo concerts, she was a member of the National Philharmonic choir for 22 years. Stockinger, in turn, began to become more and more recognizable outside the theater.
The actor played Professor Mamrock in “Życie na hot” and Stasiek from “Czterdziestolatka”, he appeared in one episode of “Civil War”, but his breakthrough role was an episode in “Miś” by Stanisław Bareja. Andrzej Stockinger was the famous boiler room stoker who uttered the iconic line: “When it’s winter, it must be cold.” The quote entered Poles’ everyday conversations for years.
Andrzej Stockinger escaped from the German camp. As a teenager, he buried his mother
However, Andrzej Stockinger’s life could have turned out completely differently. In 1940, when he was still a teenager, his mother was hit on the Poniatowski Bridge, but she did not survive the accident. The Warsaw Uprising ended with the future actor being arrested and transported to the Stutthof concentration camp. His father accompanied him in his misfortune. Stockinger managed to escape, but the trauma remained with him forever.
“I felt that there was a hole left in my father forever. He didn’t have a normal childhood, he suffered a lot and saw a lot, a lot of blood. This entire generation actually entered the post-war years emotionally broken,” Onet quotes Tomasz Stockinger.
The stigma of the war made Andrzej Stockinger want to become a doctor. He even went to Lublin, where he started to study medicine, but gave up after the second year of study. “I was convinced that medicine was my only love. For the rest of my life. As a poor student, I was looking for a way to earn a few pennies. One of my friends, whose father worked at the Lublin Musical Theater, told me that they needed a bass for the choir. And so I did. “it started,” Stockinger is quoted by the Interia portal. He claimed that after a whole day in the mortuary, it was difficult for him to maintain credibility on stage. Something had to be given up. “I decided that I would do less harm to people from the stage than with a scalpel in my hand,” he joked.
Source: Gazeta
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